Elven's Questions... Pictures Added and more ???s

[Auntbeast]

Pretty?

 

[cmom]

Also here are some other good sites and info.
Henderson's Chicken Breed Chart
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html
http://www.mypetchicken.com/aboutChickens.aspx

 

[Elven Dreams]

Thanks for the links!

Yep she is pretty! lol

I couldn't find her on the chicken chart page...

Might go post her pic elsewhere on here...

Her eggs are smallish and off white if that helps.

 

[SilkieTime]

You could post the roosters on this site under chickens buy and sale or on craigslist

 

[ChooksChick]

I believe you've been adopted by an Old English game hen- a Lemon Blue, perhaps...is she small? She's possibly a bantam, but I don't think so from the pic.

Look at Old English here: http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Games/BRKGames.html

You'll know your hens are near laying when they start squatting when you reach to pet or handle them, and you'll hear them clucking the egg song for about a week before anyone actually pops out an egg.

 

[Elven Dreams]

YAY! I am pretty sure that is what she is! Thanks so much ChooksChick!

and thanks gamblergirl.. I'll have a look and see what I can do... My husband just thinks we should eat them.. but I don't know that they have that much meat on them! lol Are BO and RIR okay for eating? I imagine you can eat just about anything, lol.

 

[Elven Dreams]

Okay new questions!!

Well really looking for more breed info: I was told these were Australorps but they don't look like the ones pictured on the breed pages I've been looking at.

Honestly to me it looks like a Black Copper Maran roo: What do you think?

The hen also is getting some of the copper feathers coming in around her neck as well. Will have a photo of her in just a few.

 

[Elven Dreams]

A couple pics of the hen:

Annnd... the red bird in the back.. was sold as a RIR but I always thought they were solid? Is this just a variation?
She's beautiful!

Thanks for any help!

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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I'd say he was an australorp cross, possibly. He could be a marans if the people you bought them from had marans.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

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Still possibly australorp on the black hen. Perhaps they had contamination in their breeding lines that infused the red coloring. If she lays a dark brown/reddish egg when she's laying you'll know for sure if she's a marans.

The red hen is a red sex-link.

She'll lay you some nice big brown eggs when she gets older.